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Impacted residents and supporters from across the Northeast, including local farmers, used a tractor blockade and climbed a 275ft tall smokestack halting construction of the Cricket Valley fracked gas power plant for a day on November 6, 2019, citing the plant’s large contribution to climate change and local air pollution, they are calling on Governor Cuomo to shut down the fracked gas power plant for good. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer - On June 1, 2017; activist groups and concerned citizens held a rally at Foley Square and then marched to New York City Hall in protest of Trump’s attack on the Paris climate agreement and call on Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio and Comptroller Stringer to take the bold action needed to fight climate change and inequality. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Over a hundred New Yorkers convened at a public garden inside Trump Tower on May 9, 2017; to host a teach-in about fossil fuel divestment and urge New York City to show climate leadership in the face of Trump’s attack on climate change and the Paris Agreement. The teach-in, part of a global week of divestment action, took particular aim at New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer. Stringer oversees the city’s $175 billion pension fund portfolio and faces mounting pressure to divest from fossil fuels and pipelines.
Einen Tag vor der großen Klimademo in Bonn bekam Europas zweitgrößte Drecksschleuder, das Neurather Kraftwerk, Besuch von zahlreichen Klima-Aktivist*innen. Schwarze Ballons symbolisieren den CO2-Ausstoß dieser Technologie von gestern. Am 4. November geht's in Bonn weiter mit dem Protest gegen das Energie-Fossil.
Foto: Jörg Farys / BUND
Impacted residents and supporters from across the Northeast, including local farmers, used a tractor blockade and climbed a 275ft tall smokestack halting construction of the Cricket Valley fracked gas power plant for a day on November 6, 2019, citing the plant’s large contribution to climate change and local air pollution, they are calling on Governor Cuomo to shut down the fracked gas power plant for good. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Impacted residents and supporters from across the Northeast, including local farmers, used a tractor blockade and climbed a 275ft tall smokestack halting construction of the Cricket Valley fracked gas power plant for a day on November 6, 2019, citing the plant’s large contribution to climate change and local air pollution, they are calling on Governor Cuomo to shut down the fracked gas power plant for good. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Climate Strike at City Hall Park - Thousands of school kids and college students walked out of class on March 15, 2019 to protest catastrophic climate change, perceived as the most pressing issue of their time. Students took to more than a dozen locations in New York City, including City Hall and Columbus Circle. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Daniel A. Zarrilli, Senior Director, Climate Policy and Programs and Chief Resilience Officer - Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and other trustees of the City’s pension funds announced on January 10, 2018; a goal to divest City funds from fossil fuel reserve owners within five years, which would make New York City the first major US pension plan to do so. In total, the City’s five pension funds hold roughly $5 billion in the securities of over 190 fossil fuel companies. The City’s move is among the most significant divestment efforts in the world to date. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Over 100 New Yorkers came together outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s fundraiser at the Plaza Hotel on June 18, 2018, calling on the New York governor to act on climate and prison injustice under the umbrella of “Cuomo’s Pipelines: Prisons to Poisons Are Bad For New York.” This is the first time these two movements have come together to demand systemic change from the governor. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
More than 1500 people took the streest of Albany and marched fom Sheridan Hollow to the Capitol Building on April 23, 2018 as part of the "Cuomo Walk The Talk" day of action, governor's seat candidates participated in the protest, Democrat Cynthia Nixon marched the streets of Albany and Green Party's Howie Hawkins marched and got arrested later at the Hall of Governors in the Capitol Building. Actor and activist James Cromwell was also among the 55 people arrested at the Hall of Governors in a non-violent act of civil disobedience, demanding Cuomo to stop all fracking infrastructure, move to 100% renewable energy, and make polluters pay. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Nine arrests were reported at the US Extinction Rebellion (XR), the first major New York City civil disobedience action of a dynamic, bold new environmental movement. A nonviolent action was organized on January 26, 2019 to temporarily shut down Rockefeller Plaza, a prominent New York City landmark to create awareness of the extreme peril of the climate change emergency through a nationwide day of nonviolent civil disobedience and protest. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
As a key water-quality certificate permit deadline looms, New Yorkers rally outside and inside the New York State Capitol building in Albany on March 27, 2017; to urge Governor Cuomo to Deny the 401 Water and Air Permits and block the Northern Access export pipeline.
Members of Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) held an action outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) headquarters in Washington DC on June 25, 2018, as dozens of BXE members and allies rallied around two of their fellow activists who perched on platforms on bamboo "gas drilling rigs" and laying an inflatable pipeline on the street blocking the entrance to the driveway to FERC's employee parking lot from 7am to early afternoon, successfully preventing them from accessing the workplace. Activists are demanding a halt to the permitting and building of all new fossil fuel pipelines and other infrastructure. There were no arrests. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Activists with Seeding Sovereignty and The Illuminator projected images on the side of KKR headquarters building in New York City on September 26, 2020 in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement and the Wet’suwet’en Nation in their opposition to a Coastal GasLink pipeline entering their traditional territory in British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Activists with Seeding Sovereignty and The Illuminator projected images on the side of KKR headquarters building in New York City on September 26, 2020 in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement and the Wet’suwet’en Nation in their opposition to a Coastal GasLink pipeline entering their traditional territory in British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Hundreds of New Yorkers joined Actress Jane Fonda and Film Director Josh Fox in the evening of January 24, 2017 at Columbus Circle in New York for a rally and march to Trump Tower in a massive peaceful protest after Trump signs orders to advance Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines
A coalition of more than 400 organizations and leaders delivered a historic letter to the White House on Sept. 15, 2015, calling on President Obama to stop new federal fossil fuel leasing on public lands and oceans in the United States.
Sign the petition! a.ran.org/i3M
Photo: Suchat Pederson
Art build for the Clean Energy march - Sane Energy Arts team were invited to make art for the inFRACKstructure contingent for the March For a Clean Energy Revolution. We have spent many hours having listening sessions from our grassroots colleagues on what messaging needs to be highlighted. Similar to our 50 foot United States of Fracking banner, we worked with legendary graphic novelist Seth Tobocman again to bring to life the story to life in a 13 part piece of art that will be carried high above the march to tell the story of fracking.
© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
Governor Cuomo is the keynote speaker at a New York League of Conservation Voters fundraiser at Chelsea Piers, Pier 60 on May 14, 2018; and we'll be picketing outside, calling on him to stop all new oil and gas projects and move New York to 100 percent renewable energy. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On June 1, 2017; activist groups and concerned citizens held a rally at Foley Square and then marched to New York City Hall in protest of Trump’s attack on the Paris climate agreement and call on Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio and Comptroller Stringer to take the bold action needed to fight climate change and inequality. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Seniors in New York City and a coalition of environmental groups led by Third Act NYC, along with allies from XRNYC, Stop the Money Pipeline, Greenfaith, 350NYC, Rise And Resist and many other organizations, held rally and march on March 21, 2023 as part of a National Day of Action to pressure the major banks to stop financing the expansion of the fossil fuel industry. The rally featured a climate clock, Climate and anti-consumerism activist and performance artist Rev. Billy Talen and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir and a pair of giant scissors cutting up credit cards. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Local climate activists, working with the Insure Our Future Network, gathered outside AIG Headquarters in Manhattan on March 1, 2021 to throw an “office warming” party complete with cake, and balloons welcoming AIG’s new CEO, Peter Zaffino--and to demand that AIG take action on climate change. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Sarah Ludwig, founder and co-director of New Economy Project - Over a hundred New Yorkers convened at a public garden inside Trump Tower on May 9, 2017; to host a teach-in about fossil fuel divestment and urge New York City to show climate leadership in the face of Trump’s attack on climate change and the Paris Agreement. The teach-in, part of a global week of divestment action, took particular aim at New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer. Stringer oversees the city’s $175 billion pension fund portfolio and faces mounting pressure to divest from fossil fuels and pipelines.
13 year old climate justice activist Alexandria Villaseñor, Climate Strike at City Hall Park - Thousands of school kids and college students walked out of class on March 15, 2019 to protest catastrophic climate change, perceived as the most pressing issue of their time. Students took to more than a dozen locations in New York City, including City Hall and Columbus Circle. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
The NY Department of Environmental Conservation held the last public hearing on the Williams NESE Pipeline at the Rockaway Park High School For Environmental Sustainability on March 6, 2019. The Williams NESE pipeline, will carry fracked gas for 23 miles through our thriving and beautiful New York Harbor. Comments will be received by the DEC until March 15. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Activists risking arrest block the doors to the conference room where the U.S. Bureau of Land Management scheduled a lease sale of public land in Colorado for fossil fuel development in Lakewood, Colorado., May 12, 2016.
Impacted residents and supporters from across the Northeast, including local farmers, used a tractor blockade and climbed a 275ft tall smokestack halting construction of the Cricket Valley fracked gas power plant for a day on November 6, 2019, citing the plant’s large contribution to climate change and local air pollution, they are calling on Governor Cuomo to shut down the fracked gas power plant for good. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Over 100 New Yorkers came together outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s fundraiser at the Plaza Hotel on June 18, 2018, calling on the New York governor to act on climate and prison injustice under the umbrella of “Cuomo’s Pipelines: Prisons to Poisons Are Bad For New York.” This is the first time these two movements have come together to demand systemic change from the governor. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Members of Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) held an action outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) headquarters in Washington DC on June 25, 2018, as dozens of BXE members and allies rallied around two of their fellow activists who perched on platforms on bamboo "gas drilling rigs" and laying an inflatable pipeline on the street blocking the entrance to the driveway to FERC's employee parking lot from 7am to early afternoon, successfully preventing them from accessing the workplace. Activists are demanding a halt to the permitting and building of all new fossil fuel pipelines and other infrastructure. There were no arrests. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Hundreds of New Yorkers still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Ida, marched to Citigroup Headquarters and the NY Federal Reserve on October 29, 2021 to demand two of the city’s iconic financial institutions stop the pipeline of money flowing to the fossil fuel industry. The actions were part of a day of international escalation with disruptions targeting financial institutions in 50 cities on six continents to protest the role of the financial sector in fueling the biggest threat to global financial security: climate change. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Impacted residents and supporters from across the Northeast, including local farmers, used a tractor blockade and climbed a 275ft tall smokestack halting construction of the Cricket Valley fracked gas power plant for a day on November 6, 2019, citing the plant’s large contribution to climate change and local air pollution, they are calling on Governor Cuomo to shut down the fracked gas power plant for good. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Ahead of Mother's Day, dozens of mothers, caregivers and allies gathered at Citi’s headquarters in Tribeca on May 11, 2023 to perform a collection of moving songs calling on Citi’s CEO, Jane Fraser, to align Citi’s policies with the Paris Agreement, stop funding coal and phase out all fossil fuel financing. Participants also delivered a giant Mother’s Day bouquet and card for Jane Fraser to Chief Sustainability Officer Valerie Smith, who came down to meet the protesters. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Climate activists with Stop the Money Pipeline held a rally in midtown Manhattan on April 17, 2021 first at BlackRock’s HQ and then march to JP Morgan Chase’s HQ, -two of the world’s biggest funders of climate destruction in their opinion- to urge the two companies to end their support for the dangerous proposed Line 3 pipeline project, and stop funding fossil fuels and forest destruction. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Climate activists with Stop the Money Pipeline held a rally in midtown Manhattan on April 17, 2021 first at BlackRock’s HQ and then march to JP Morgan Chase’s HQ, -two of the world’s biggest funders of climate destruction in their opinion- to urge the two companies to end their support for the dangerous proposed Line 3 pipeline project, and stop funding fossil fuels and forest destruction. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
WASHINGTON DC, USA -- Sunday, May 15th, 2016. Hundreds of climate activists protest at a rally organized by the Break Free movement against fossil fuel projects. Demonstrators went to the streets at the nation's capital to protest in front of the White House, calling on the decision makers in Washington DC to support the transition to renewable energy instead of coal, oil and gas energy.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo by: Eman Mohammed
On June 1, 2017; activist groups and concerned citizens held a rally at Foley Square and then marched to New York City Hall in protest of Trump’s attack on the Paris climate agreement and call on Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio and Comptroller Stringer to take the bold action needed to fight climate change and inequality. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Seniors in New York City and a coalition of environmental groups led by Third Act NYC, along with allies from XRNYC, Stop the Money Pipeline, Greenfaith, 350NYC, Rise And Resist and many other organizations, held rally and march on March 21, 2023 as part of a National Day of Action to pressure the major banks to stop financing the expansion of the fossil fuel industry. The rally featured a climate clock, Climate and anti-consumerism activist and performance artist Rev. Billy Talen and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir and a pair of giant scissors cutting up credit cards. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Private security and police attempted to stop participants from entering a public garden on the fifth floor of the tower, but acquiesced after civil rights attorney briefed them on New Yorker's right to conduct a teach-in at the space.
The NY Department of Environmental Conservation held the last public hearing on the Williams NESE Pipeline at the Rockaway Park High School For Environmental Sustainability on March 6, 2019. The Williams NESE pipeline, will carry fracked gas for 23 miles through our thriving and beautiful New York Harbor. Comments will be received by the DEC until March 15. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Solidarisch und Symbolisch bekam der Hambi ein paar neue Bewohner. Darunter auch eine wunderbare Hainbuche.
The NYC Light Brigade and fellow activists, artists and organizers light up the NY skyline with messages of resistance and a demand for climate action on September 24, 2017; to send a message to the NYC Comptroller Stringer to divest from destructive fossil fuel companies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
A Keep It In The Ground activist makes sure the message is clear outside the Democratic debate site at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, February 4, 2016. The New Hampshire primary is the first primary election held in the United States following the Iowa Caucuses in choosing the Democratic and Republican nominees for the presidency. It takes place in the state of New Hampshire and is designed to give an early voice to the New England region much like the Iowa Caucus gives an early voice to the Midwest. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Greenpeace
Seniors in New York City and a coalition of environmental groups led by Third Act NYC, along with allies from XRNYC, Stop the Money Pipeline, Greenfaith, 350NYC, Rise And Resist and many other organizations, held rally and march on March 21, 2023 as part of a National Day of Action to pressure the major banks to stop financing the expansion of the fossil fuel industry. The rally featured a climate clock, Climate and anti-consumerism activist and performance artist Rev. Billy Talen and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir and a pair of giant scissors cutting up credit cards. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Climate activists with Stop the Money Pipeline held a rally in midtown Manhattan on April 17, 2021 first at BlackRock’s HQ and then march to JP Morgan Chase’s HQ, -two of the world’s biggest funders of climate destruction in their opinion- to urge the two companies to end their support for the dangerous proposed Line 3 pipeline project, and stop funding fossil fuels and forest destruction. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On September 22, 2022 the Rainforest Action Network, Friends of the Earth U.S. and SumOfUs held a rally outside Colgate-Palmolive offices in NYC, where the Consumer Goods Forum's Forest Positive Coalition held a greenwashing corporate event during Climate Week NYC. The groups also supported similar actions outside BlackRock Headquarters and TIAA Headquarters to denounce their failure to meet commitments against deforestation. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Climate Strike at City Hall Park - Thousands of school kids and college students walked out of class on March 15, 2019 to protest catastrophic climate change, perceived as the most pressing issue of their time. Students took to more than a dozen locations in New York City, including City Hall and Columbus Circle. (Photo by Erik McGregor)